artemisia

I live near Victoria Uni. Lots of doctorates, professionals, academics. Over the years several of the academics have nailed their colours to Labour’s mast, either by saying so, by putting up local or national election posters, doing letterbox drops in the street or in one case standing for election. .

box345

The Race to the Left.

Which party can spend more of my money to hand over to the people who are LEAST DESERVING of any money.

Are there seriously more people ready to vote for this branch of communism, than against it. I can’t believe it to be true, but it seems every political party sees votes in this Race to the Left, and hence Race to out-socialise Venezuela.

box345

All National needs to do is properly label what Labour/Greens have reverted to – Communism, Marxism in twenty easy steps. But 2016 National haven’t got the guts to use real political language any more.

Because 2016 National are so driven by political correctness, they can’t even use the language that has defeated communism for the last 168 years.

Call Labour/Greens the “Communists” that they are, and regain control of the conversation.

DifferentPerspective

So the stupidest vote for Labour

Labour – more likely

Pasifika
No kids
Maori
No qualifications
Smokers
Doctorates

LOL – so Labour voters are the stupidest (well excepting no kids I guess – that’s about the smartest move you can make). Doctorates – ie people who have learned so much about next to nothing that they’ve become “Knowing” and unable to learn anything else.

DifferentPerspective

box345 (338 comments) says:
July 9th, 2016 at 6:18 pm
The Race to the Left.

Which party can spend more of my money to hand over to the people who are LEAST DESERVING of any money.

Are there seriously more people ready to vote for this branch of communism, than against it. I can’t believe it to be true, but it seems every political party sees votes in this Race to the Left, and hence Race to out-socialise Venezuela.

What has become of this stupid socialist world?

It is depressing isn’t it?

However, there is some particularly strong medicine on the way for Key’s very wet and left-leaning Centre-left government. And that medicine is going to take the form of a very bitter dose of Winston after the next election.

National’s race to the left approach is generating a very large amount of discontent about Key’s government and the only profitable way for a non-socialist to register than to punish National with NZ First.

And Winston will want three things for his support:
– John Key to be removed as PM (payback (for 2008) is a bitch)
– the first 12 months as PM (it’s his “destiny”), and
– gutting all the race-based provisions in law

This will come to pass and National will have no-one but themselves to blame for it – they’re now moving out of the Centre and the vacuum is being filled by Winston! Lots of dead rats will be consumed!!

That’s pretty funny. Even in the least-demanding subject areas, acquiring a PhD takes a high IQ and a hell of a lot of intellectual labour (which dumbasses the world over tend not to think of as any kind of actual work at all, while being completely unable to carry out such work themselves).

BananaLama

waikatosinger

This only says the Labour vote is higher in areas with a high proportion of people with doctorates (near universities where all the students are so no surprises there). Now it may also be true that a higher proportion of people with doctorates are Labour supporters, and I admit that is certainly what everyone thinks including most academics. But I suspect it is actually a bit more complicated than that and if you broke it down by subject area you would see some really interesting patterns. I think you;d find that some subject areas are politicised and completely dominated by left wingers; whereas other subjects particularly those in the sciences and in engineering, are not political and the people in those areas have the normal range of political views.

artemisia

BananaLama (338 comments) says:
July 9th, 2016 at 8:30 pm

Sorry but why does it matter if people are smokers? Why not drinkers or Runners?

Demographics for the analysis were based on census data.

Seems like the next census is proposing to ask questions about housing which support the Uni of Otago in Wellington drive for a rental warrant of fitness and/or bash any government which does do what they want. Not sure if the questions are final yet, but believe they include heating source and whether there is mould in the property bigger in total than a sheet of A4 paper. AFAIK there will not be a question about how often the occupants clean mould. Which would be very much to the point.

david in Aus

If National is smart. The growing Asian demographic can be a potent force, especially as Labour is so anti-Chinese. Also exploit the Labour-NZ first axis. Look at the effectiveness of the campaign in Australia in the seat of Chisholm with a high Asian population.